Senate and House Battle Over Civil Service Reform and Library Bill
The week reports Senates and House action on the Lowell Bankruptcy bill and Civil Service reform. Debates feature pensions for disabled soldiers and government spending on rivers harbors and a National Library building on government land. A naval pension bill and Post Office Appropriation proceedings are noted, with Swearing in of James H. McLean after district changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Board of Trade
Lowell
Senate
Colorado
United States
Pendleton
Post Office
Randall
Congressional Library
Ingalls
Peocoesinas
Beck
Hale
Judiciary Committee
House
Washington
Military Academy
Pound
Upson
Robert Smalls
Navy
Charleston
Civil Service Commissioners
Reed
James H. McLean
Congress
Thomas Allen
Missouri
McLean
Corner Stone Laid for Chicago Board of Trade Building
A new era in Chicago commerce opened as the cornerstone of the Chicago Board of Trade building was laid with ceremonies on the 13th. Across the country reports show a mix of markets and misfortunes, including railway disputes, oil well breakthroughs, mill closures, and sudden weather extremes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Board of Trade
Northwest
Forest County
Bradford
Pittsburgh
R. & H. Adams
Paterson
N. J
Oakwood Cemetery
Richmond
Virginia Medical College
Keeley Motor Company
Folger
Sandwich Islands
Brooklyn
Raymond Street
Manhattan Beach Railroad Company
Big Ridge
New York
Hickman
Minnesota
Manitoba
Bismarck
Arknsas
Benjamin Newgass
Liverpool
Philadelphia
Terre Haute
Ind
Baltimore
Miles
Cleveland
Jury Convicts Theresa Sturla of Manslaughter in Stiles Case
A Chicago jury finds Theresa Sturla guilty of manslaughter for killing Charles Stiles and sentences her to one year in the Penitentiary. Also reported: 208 business failures in the U S and Canada in the week ending the 14th, with details by region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Theresa Sturla
Charles Stiles
United States
Canada
Pacific States and Territories
New York City
Dun & Co
Toledo
Washington Territory
Oregon
Pendleton
Kate Kinney
Ferry Landing
Kinney
Pssengers
James L. Gilmore
Deadwood
Oak
John Redd
Searle
Ala
Peter Thomas
Mansfield
Forzes and Lehman
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
Lebanon
New York
State Grange
Wisconsin
American Agricultural Association
Congress
National and Local Political Tidbits Across States
The piece reports Democratic gains in the next U S House and Massachusetts legislature, mayoral races in Worcester and Boston, notable deaths including Robert L. Stuart and Maria Appley, and a string of political appointments and legal notes. It also notes the Ohio and Pennsylvania Grange actions opposing liquor interests and Prince Taranto’s European tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
James F. Mallory
Edgefield
New York Herald
Massachusetts
Senate
House
Samue E. Hinpretti
Worcester
Mass
E. B. Stoddard
Albert Palmer
Boston
Samuel A. Green
Robert L. Stuart
United States
Victor de L. Gelston
Baltimore
Ohio Board of Canvassers
Murray
Morey
Warner
McKinley
Agaxy
Washington
George Bliss
Maria Appley
New York
Morristown
N. J
Ohio State Grange
J. H. Brigham
L. ©. Richardson
R. &. Thompson
Rh. M. Coulter
Paulson
K. Haltsinger
Henry Talcott
Ashtabula County
T. R. Smith
Marion County
Lewis F. Smith
State Grange
Ohio
State Grange of
Pennsylvania
Prince Tarantro
Mikado
Japan
Europe
Vth
Arthur
San Francisco
Confederate War Secretary Robert Cruip Dies in Richmond
Robert Cruip, assistant secretary of war under the Confederate government, died at his home in Richmond Virginia within the past few days.
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Robert Cruip
Richmond
Global unrest and disasters reported in brief items
Reports from Liverpool banking failures to Oxford medical tensions, a Turkish armored carriage, anti terror networks, and political shifts. Fires at Hampton Court, Jamaica fatalities, cholera in Mexico, floods in Australia, mine disasters in Victoria, and political upheavals in Ireland and Spain accompany references to immigration and constitutional reform.
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Biddulph, Wood & Jevons
Liverpool
England
Kingston
Ont
Osman Pasha
St. Petersburg
M. Reichment
Hampton Court
Middlesex
Eng
Jamaica
Volumar
Reichstag
Chispas
Mexico
Tonala
New Creswick
Victoria
Guayaquil
Manchester
Lord Derby
Ireland
Constantinople
Patrick
Moyes Joyce
Patrick Casey
Galway
Joyce
Alexandria
Senor Rivas
Marshal Serrano
West Gate
South America
Cavendish
Burke
Nile
Various 1880s Briefs From Around the World
Deaths include Ortu in Lafayette Indiana and Juper Clinton Briggs in Iowa. A wage of blood poisoning follows cancer. A London letter threatens to blow up government offices. Emigration aid requests rise in Westport Ireland. A Newport Arkansas fire destroys sixty buildings. Panama Canal completion forecast for 1888. A Brooklyn education official is cited as a defaulter. Poet William Whittier turns seventy five. Southern matrimonial associations tally 249. Davisson Griffin & Co. fail for 200000. Westgate denies Dublin crimes. Epizootic hits Philadelphia stables. CuareS paper kills wife then himself. Kansas winter wheat improves. Idaho governor flags Mormon voting. Hematite Iron Co. fails in England. Pendleton Civil Service debate resumes in Senate. House considers Post-office Appropriation. holiday recess proposed.
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Gop
Ortu
Lafayette
Ind
Congress
London
Joyce
Galway
Ireland
New York City
WestGate
Phenix Park
Dublin
Phildelphia
Cuares Paper
San Francisco
Kansas
Idaho
Tur Hematite Iron Company
Maryport
England
United States
Senate
Pendleton Civil Service
Timber Culture Resolutions Urge State Forestry Units and Arboreta
The National Agricultural Association in Chicago adopts measures to curb forest waste. It calls for state forestry commissioners to educate the public and report on woodland conditions annually. It urges land grant colleges to plant arboreta and run forest stations testing species for distribution. It also asks Congress to establish forest experimental stations on public domain with seed and plant distribution by the Agriculture Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Agricultural Association
Chicago
United States
Commonwealths
Congress
State Boards of Agriculture
United States Agricultural Department
Great Kingston Fire Decimates Business Quarter
Cablegram reports Kingston Jamaica's business district destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at £6,000,000 with hundreds homeless. wharves warehouses banks and supplies burned. No fire department. maritime city with 35,000 people. Charitable relief urged to Kingston Charity Organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
Jamaica
W. K. Arbill
Royal Mail Steamship Company
Atlas
McDowell
Surrey
Spanish Town
The Lowell Bankruptcy Bill Overview in Senate Summary
A Washington report outlines the Lowell Bankruptcy bill proposing creditor chosen trustees and a Committee of Supervision. It limits a full code, defines debtor and creditor rights, and sets procedure via Commissioners in Bankruptcy with Supreme Court appeals. Proceedings hinge on district judge appointed commissioners and a system of receivers and supervisors. Voluntary bankruptcy allowed for debts above fifty dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lowell
United States Senate
Lowell Will
Supreme Court
Circuit Courts
Fire Strikes Enterprise Cotton Mills at Manayunk
A blaze in the picker room of the Enterprise mills trapped workers on upper floors. With no fire escapes they used an external rope to descend, many leaping or falling from the second floor. Sixteen injured including Mary O Conner fourteen with one thought fatally hurt. Robert Marsh suffered a severe arm injury. A man named Quinn was believed buried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise
Manayunk
Mary O'Conner
Robert Marsh
Quinn
Railroads Expansion and Suggestions From U S Commission
The annual report notes unprecedented railroad construction by Pacific companies aiming to secure trade and through connections. It details subsidies, debt totals, sinking funds, and calls for legal rate control, bond options, and a unified signaling system to stabilize finances and efficiency nationwide.
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Washington
Commissioner of Railroads
Pacific
Central Pacific
Central Branch
Union Pacific
United States
Sioux City & Pacific
Central Branch Union Pucific
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Supreme Court of Illinois
Supreme Court of the United States
Railroad
Commissioner of Pensions Proposes Major Reform Steps
The 1882 report urges remodeling Bounty Land laws to base pensions on disability rather than rank. It calls for removing the three year filing limit, dating pensions from accruing rights, and expanding eligibility for widows and invalids. Proposes a $5,000 yearly pension agent salary and notes only about 26 percent of wartime enlistees have pension claims. Estimates surviving pensionable soldier population around one million.
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Washington
Commissioner of Pensions
Dudley
Congress
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Congressional
Nnion
Freedmen’s Saving and Trust Company
Juper Clinton Briggs
Omaha
Afton
Iowa
Poor Law Union
Westport
Newport
Ark
U. S. Railroad Commissioner’s
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